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Day Three Hundred Sixty Three (Year Five)

As it turned out, I didn't need the big run-up from last night in order to make today a productive one.

I got most of the way done with the iTunes project before I had to go into work at 11, which left me about 40 or so songs to finish off when I got done.  I polished the rest of those off after the Mrs. and I got back from an early dinner and a walk around the bookstore.

Here's where things sit with two days remaining before year six of the blog:

1) I can finally resume work on my giant list of songs to learn, which I had made really good progress on before I noticed that things were missing.

2) I feel like I'm in better shape than I have been in a while when it comes to the EP/Album.  I'm at a point where a hard charge and a bit of luck with lyrics could put me in a place to have that done this fall sometime.

3) I need to get back to "Red House."  I still really want to have that finished by the end of August, but I'm going to have to pick up the pace something fierce on it.

4) I can finally import some of the newer music I've picked up into iTunes on the new computer.  Somehow that feels like a relief to me.

These are just a few things, of course, I could go on.  All told, I feel like things can get back to whatever passes for normal in my musical life.  Whether that's getting back to working on the practice binder, learning songs, improving my confidence with the instrument, trying to figure out GarageBand, etc.  I'm just excited to get back into some sort of rhythm. 
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